Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-25
NUMBER z.

unresisting, tending to that point o
future time when the states will simply
be agencies for the enforcement of po
lice regulations, which it will be in
convenient for the central government
to exercise.
1t was at one time, universally, held
that the powers of the Federal govern.
ment were fixed, limited and governed
by the express letter of the grant con-
tanned in the Constitution, and that
grant itself expressly stipulated that
the rights and powers not granted to
the Federal agent were reserved to
the tates respectively and TO the peo-
| pie thereof. It was at one time univer.
sally held that the states were the
creator, and that the creation (Federal
government was subservient to the
| behests of the states.
But this has passed away as q dream,
| and is only, it seems, remembered by
those who have survived their genera
ton.
The contractive, centralizing power,
through force, on the outside, aud
yielding on the other, both sanctioned
ty the decision Of courts which have
become impregnated with contraction,
has and exercises power which those
having most to do with framing the
constitution never intended it should
have. And the shades of Madison and
Monroe, and even of Hamilton, must
be surprised that constructions are put
upon their work which they them
selves said were against the express
intent of that constitution.
For instance, they each stated in their
papers { Federalist that the lawful
action of state could not be coerced
through Federal interference with that
states official. Still, in the seventies,
twenty odd state VA nisi prius judg-
es were imprisoned as for contempt of
court for disagreeing with Federal
judge in their construction of statute
of their commonwealth. And in this
state we have the spectacle of county
judges imprisoned for months at the
behest of a foreign federal judge be-
cause they obey the state law aud re-
fuse to make an unlawful tax-levy,
which the Federal solon orders them
to make in contravention of that law.
And constructive force has made such
gigantic strides toward uncontested
fhat fhnca fIfrno ho rdlxy
noticed and not know by one man in
thousand. But these are only aggra-
waited cases.
Protection to private trade through
taxation (Which protection is for the
benefit of a class at the cost and ex-
pense of the whole, while it is sound
maxim that trade which il not self
supporting does not deserve to exist
and should die) is an outgrowth OF,
and, at the same time, supporte of
ton.
The appropriation of Federal money
for the improvement Of rivers entirely
within the bounds OF single state 10
a common infringement of states rights
in which even all states rights advo-
Gates join.
The appropriation of Federal funds,
to be divided among the states in pro-
portion to illiteracy is dangerous step |
in the same direction. Governmental |
ownership or control of railway and |
telegraph lines is Capitalization person
fed. The first two of these dangers is |
present, and the others are imminent |
ly threatened by an increasing number |
Of advocates. And these are only a few |
Of the modes and evidences of the en-
of the contractive power |
upon the province of its opponent. |
That encroachment in going on all
along the line. Functions are exercis-
ed, powers are arrogated by the FEEDER
al power for foreign to its original pIr-
pose and and political parties las the
Henry George partly are founded upon
vast paternalism
whose fruition would be evidence of the
entire extirpation of expansive force
from our polity, whose success would
throw down the barrier which the
States erect between the central power |
and the rights of the citizen, and whose
would herald the dawn OF CEN
trail, bureaucratic, depotism.
That the preservation of equality be-
tween these forces is requisite for our
well-being should be patent to all men.
That that equipoise has been destroy
ed, and the divergence from the ways |
Of the fathers is day by day becoming |
more marked is self-evident truth;
and that the time may come. in cut
ceeding generations, when the states |
will bear about the same relation to the |
union that the counties now bear to |
the states. or as province to the Ro- |
man empire, is danger to be feared,
unless American intelligence and
American patriotism restores the pris-
teIn equilibrium af our fathers polity. |
And those things will come to pass
by reason of the fact that in the work
ings of our government the contractive |
and the expansive theory did not re-
main within their own provinces, that
one encroached upon the other, that
one destroyed the other. x.
ARCADIA VALLEY.
An Amphitheater on the Summit of the |
OZarks-.Sylvan Lake HOme,"
the Beautiful Residence of